August 26, 2016
SaltStack – The Problem Bucket
This is the home of the various salt stack errors and quirks that I come across, just a nice little bucket of frustrations so that I have a quick reference page that is not based on human memory 🙂
Quoting pillar data
Pillar data will be processed twice, once by as pillar data and secondly as
part of the state file. Perhaps for some reason we want to pass a string true
to something then its easy to get caught out.
some\_pillar\_var: true -> some_envvar: true
Knowing that the renderer will strip out our